Ju Wang
Abstract
Due to their large bandwidth and impressive data speed, millimeter-wave (mmWave) radios are expected to play a key role in the 5G and beyond (e.g., 6G) communication networks. Yet, to release mmWave’s true power, the highly directional mmWave beams need to be aligned perfectly. Most existing beam alignment methods adopt an exhaustive or semi-exhaustive space scanning, which introduces up to seconds of delays. To eliminate the need for complex space scanning, this article presents an Ultra-wideband (UWB)-assisted mmWave communication framework, which leverages the co-located UWB antennas to estimate the best angles for mmWave beam alignment. One major challenge of applying this idea in the real world is the barrier of limited antenna numbers. Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) devices are usually equipped with only a small number of UWB antennas, which are not enough for the existing algorithms to provide an accurate angle estimation. To solve this challenge, we design a novel Multi-Frequency MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MF-MUSIC) algorithm, which extends the classic MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm to the frequency domain and overcomes the antenna limitation barrier in the spatial domain. Extensive real-world experiments and numerical simulations illustrate the advantage of the proposed MF-MUSIC algorithm. MF-MUSIC uses only three antennas to achieve an accurate angle estimation, which is a mere 0.15° (or a relative difference of 3.6%) different from the state-of-the-art 16-antenna-based angle estimation method.
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